Maybe that’s just my style. But appreciate the feedback.
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Maybe that’s just my style. But appreciate the feedback.
A strategic decision here. I think an image like that does more harm than good in informing the public in a fair, neutral, and balanced way. If a picture tells a thousand words, what impression does that photo tell you or feeling does it give you, before you read a single word or know the facts.
Eh. I get your point. But, it wasn’t as simple as more pay. It was an impasse hearing. They got what they wanted, but they also did so knowing there would be a reduction in force.
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I'd encourage you to watch the meetings — they offer a lot of insight into how that dynamic tends to play out.
Under VA law, directing specific cuts isn't the Council's role — they set the appropriation level, and the SB allocates within it. That's the tension behind classification: Council wants more visibility into how the $ is spent, something that's traditionally been the school board's call
You're being very generous with the word 'competition.' I've seen what's being published around here, I'm not losing any sleep.
How did Alexandria's growing media landscape not make it into this edition?
Council didn't propose specific cuts. There was some discussion of shared services with the city and other jurisdictions as a potential efficiency, but ACPS noted it already participates in regional SPED programming for that reason.
This story has been updated to reflect that a revised docket published Friday morning shows the resolution of intent has been added to Tuesday's City Council meeting agenda as item 18.
Just realized this week marks one year of covering Alexandria full-time. Thanks to all for reading and supporting my work over the last 365!
It's been driving me absolutely crazy.
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FYI - Newsletter subscribers. Yes, I've noticed "The Alexandria Brief" displays four times at the top of our newsletter. My design changes still won't save. Working on it. Thanks for your patience and for putting up with me.
*or maybe I'm the only one that has the city and ACPS calendar interwined with my daily calendar, and feel like I constantly have somewhere to be lol
I think once a month, there should be nothing scheduled for a civic event in the city, or we should have stuff scheduled, but then have the joy of that feeling when everything is cancelled.
After the feedback I got from last night's meeting, I can't say I'm surprised I'm already the prime suspect. At least this time the power did the work for me.
Welcomed power outage for sure. I got a new Mezcal I've been wanting to open.
You're welcome. It’s important to cover.
Virginia Richards, the 80-year-old Alexandria woman reported critically missing Thursday, has been found safe, police announced Thursday evening.
I never 100% trust anything said on there. It's been very wrong several times in the last year. But I have confirmed with APD that she has been found safe.
Just got word - "The Alexandria Police Department is pleased to report that Virginia Richards has been safely located".
That's good news. As of 8 minutes, ago the city sent out a news alert stating she was still missing. I hope they were wrong.
Will be interesting to watch which organizations can pull this off.
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Heads up.
Chaos on the scanner today
you're right, and it's something I think about covering these meetings. the people at the microphone aren't always the most impacted. that gap — between who shows up and who's affected — is part of the story too.
and that goes back to my point, people asking what can I do and then doing something about it.
Fair point, but I tend to be more of an optimist. For example, 120+ signatures, a formal student letter to the board, middle schoolers, teachers and parents at microphones, resulted in School Board taking another look and making changes.
I just checked my doorbell camera history, because you just never know. I encourage my neighbors in Alexandria to do the same.
